Has your handwritting always been atrocious?

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the nun in 4th grade finally said, "son, i want you to print from now on, forget about the handwritting", lol....i have been printing ever since

i have always struggled with it, especially since i am a good writter in longhand, but ytou just can't read it

btw, i am left handed

I am told my handwriting was better in first and second grade. I don't know about that, but I know now that even in print some people have difficulty reading what I wrote.

My handwriting is pretty bad, readable, but bad. It seems no matter how neat I try to make it and how carefully I move my hands it still looks messier than everyone elses.

Mine was always super-neat; I had the neatest handwriting in class in primary grades because I'm such a perfectionist.
It got much messier in grades 7-9, but now it's extremely neat again. I showed people my messiest writing and they thought it was neat, although I don't think so.

I have been printing everything (except my signature - which I practiced for days) since about 7th grade. My dad also always printed everything. My printing is quite good (and as a beginning drafter, my hand lettering was excellent.)

As I recall, printing was required in math & science when I was in school - and I never understood the point of cursive writing, anyway.

Absolutely abysmal.

It's one of the reasons I first started using computers, so I could write diaries/log books that I would be able to read six months hence.

BTW... That was a 1k Sinclair ZX81.... Long time ago.

Mine appears to be quite neat, but however I can be slow at writing.

I've always had horrible handwriting. I remember in 3rd or 4th grade making a conscious effort to make it look much neater, and I just couldn't. Keeping a lab notebook has further degraded the quality of my writing, since I scribble everything in there.

Mine is awful to the point that I have difficulty reading it myself. Was told in high school to just print instead. Even that is difficult to read.

I wish I could say the same. I do drafting work for a living, but it's all computer-assisted now. But when I was learning, I was taught on the board and the one thing I always stunk at was lettering. I knew HOW to properly form my letters, they were just always sloppy no matter how much I practiced (and I did that a lot). My handwriting has always stunk, printing, cursive, anything ... it's always been bad. My wife, on the other hand, prints by hand like a typewriter. People are always amazed at how perfect her printing is, while I never get such remarks made about mine.

My printing is impeccable. I think my cursive was okay in school, though I was slower at it. As Zeichner said, I don´t understand the purpose of cursive anyway; I think it´s just one of the many impractical things we learn in school just to bide the time, but for no particular reason; how often do we really need to use cursive in life??? I haven´t written in cursive since I was in Junior High- (other than to sign my name). I don´t think I even remember HOW to write in cursive! Like many of the other things I learned in school...

it is sh***y

always use block letters and don't get the point of cursive.

good thing most is typed

I can do all kinds of fine motor stuff to exceptional levels of quality, etc....but I absolutely cannot write in cursive (just trips off some kind of twitchy/spastic thing in my hand that I cannot control) whatsoever, and my printing is undeniably atrocious even with my best efforts.

i have always found calligraphy beautiful and have always aspired to it

for a person who has obsessed over their handwriting my penmanship is pretty poor. but compared with most other people my handwriting is probably really neat.

Yes, yes and yes.

I just use a computer in exams and stuff. I cannot read my own handwriting. It's just a scribble.

I am alright now at using a pen on a flat sheet of paper.

When I need to use a texta or Im writing on a curved surface, in order to be legible my writing is like double the size of others, and still looks horrible. Anyone else experience that?